Religious denominations in Europe at the end of the 16th century.
Nature
The beekeeper forgot to insert the frames in the hive in which the bees collect the honey. The hardworking insects then built their own architecture from the honeycomb so that the air can flow freely and maintain a stable temperature.
Materials Science
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth present novel electrospun nonwovens in Science Advances that exhibit an unusual combination of high electrical conductivity and extremely low thermal conductivity.
The nonwovens represent a breakthrough in materials research: it has been possible to decouple electrical and thermal conductivity based on a simple-to-implement material concept. The nonwovens are made of carbon and silicon-based ceramic via electrospinning process and are attractive for technological applications, for example, in energy technology and electronics. They can be manufactured and processed cost-effectively on an industrial scale.
Normally, high electrical conductivity is associated with high thermal conductivity, and low thermal conductivity goes with low electrical conductivity. However, in many high-tech industries, there is growing interest in multifunctional materials that combine good electric with low thermal transport.
Though several strategies have been developed in the materials, like dense inorganic materials, conjugated polymers, and alloys, achieving extremely low thermal conductivity in combination with high electrical conductivity is still a major challenge for flexible, foldable materials.
Is it wrong to love a snake?
Worth Repeating
George Carlin said it years ago: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.”
we care, we just can’t do anything about it short of hanging them. that option becomes less prohibitive every day now.
Don’t limit your options. Hanging allows you to reuse the rope. Same with using a bowstring. But there are other ways to send them on.
In 2014 the Connecticut legislature made a gun registration law. Existing registration provided names and mailing addresses to which were sent 250K registered letters warning suspected gun owners to comply with the new law. There were no protests, speeches, marches, or letter writing campaigns, but the law only got 10% compliance rate. The state governor threw a fit on TV. The state police declined to go door-to-door to enforce it. Ultimately, nothing happened.
But yet the law exists so that when good gun owner is arrested, there will be additional charges from said law and also allow confiscation of all guns, materials, cash, tangible assets.
Same with New York’s laws.
They exist as a pretext to torture good people and yet never are ever used against bad people.
Did anyone request a copy of the list? Seems like a public document quite useful in shaming gun owning lefties, or a target list for the less lawfully inclined.
Add to the insurance narrative by including frames showing someone attempting to start an insurance business that delivers quality and the government shutting them down on behalf of the existing cartel and someone saying they won’t buy insurance then and the government forcing them too. The root cause of EVERY PROBLEM is GOVERNMENT, not a free market regulated by the free actions of consumers and producers.
Look at auto manufacturers. In order to stay in business they’re forced by big government to produce inferior products to meet some woke wet dream standard.
Also add in the government pointing a gun at your head to force you to buy insurance in the first place.
So many forms of insurance should be illegal, that it would be easier to just make the whole industry illegal. that is, if the government were interested in serving the people.
-Kle.
You’ve not understood how it works. Originally, car makers included stuff like seat belts, etc as options and promoted safety as a feature. When nobody bought them, they had the government mandate them so the car makers reaped the profits and could blame government for the mandates. Same with all the overpriced bigBrother crap. And conveniently, now NOBODY can produce and sell an inexpensive and affordable car that has JUST what the CUSTOMER WANTS.
A few years ago I saw a Ford ad from Mexico selling a $12K mid-sized gasoline four-door that got 45 MPG. Pre-covid a friend flew into a major airport in Germany, rented a routine car from Hertz, which seated four tall adults, they took it on the autobahn, and it got 40-something MPG diesel.
X2
Ralph Nader was far more influential in that that auto company executives. But yours is a nicer story.
Two words: Toyota Hilux.
Two more words why not: Damn gubmint.
I’d buy a Hi Lux with a diesel engine tomorrow – with US Currency or 1 oz gold krugerrands
Which is why we haven’t lived in an actual Republic for a while, rather we live in a National Socialist state under the label ‘Republic.’
Indirect government control of all aspects of life, it’s the National Socialist way.
Prove me wrong.
We can put a date on when the continuous, smooth, exponential growth of government turned a corner in human perception: https://mises.org/library/garet-garretts-revolution-was
Yes, that’s right.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr was a great man. A great man.
The other day we were talking about how Cleopatra screwed both Caesar and Antony? Morgenthau has her beat by orders of magnitude: he screwed the both US and Germany. A great man.
no argument. now, what do we do?
How many reports must be generated if I buy something for $11,000, or deposit it into a bank account?
My bank makes a copy of my drivers license if I deposit $5000
When, in fact, it’s nobody’s damn business. More invasion of privacy by government ninny’s.
Cobra. Until I kept track of the number of days I could comfortably drive it for a year or two I was going to get a Cobra replica. Now, in addition to the weather, the vandalism aspect comes into play.
Nature. As are many things in nature that is beautiful. You have to just stand back in wonder at how the bees could figure this out. People can say instinct but it is hard to explain convoluted structures like that with just the word “instinct”.
Insurance. Was going to write a small rant but in the end decided against it. I will just that that is a very appropriate meme.
I’ll be happy to pinch hit for you on the insurance rant, I’m good at emoting. But since it’s Sunday I’ll follow your lead and refrain. Minimally tho, it’s the same deal as EL said above, they are in bed with government…we’re at the bottom of the hierarchy ladder, last in line and with no say on what’s important for our situation.
Silence slave!!!
Sorry, I was channeling Bill Gates.
I will be somewhat quiet as long as I don’t have to eat a bug or lab grown slop burger.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Zwinglians, before today. Did that evolve into the Swiss Protestant Church(es) ?
-Kle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology_of_Huldrych_Zwingli
Pooling risk, eg through a co-op, is one thing. The insurance *industry*, however, is very much a Mercurian (using Yuri Slezkine’s terminology) enterprise. As such, no surprise in the cartoon. Incidentally, she’s dressed as The Monopoly Man in panel 3; I learned only just now that the Official Monopoly Man doesn’t actually wear a monocle.
The Cobra…sweet design, great lines, plenty of go with the 427…and fun. (I think of Ford v Ferrari showcasing Damon/Shelby driving his around, and that was with the 287.) First search listing that popped up; 1965 Shelby, $80k.
I just have to say: 289, as that was my motor of choice when I was a kid.
302 is just a bigger 289.
Absolutely. The 289 (forgive my “lose my man card” typo with 287) is actually good for the Cobra, tamer without the killing yourself potential. And the 302 Boss was not too shabby either as it fit into a Maverick.
I always wanted to drive the Cobra up into the hills (pavement), but with the 427 (as DrJim alludes) would probably kill myself.
(BTW, the backwards ‘302 Boss’ was a joke.)
Yep. The 302 is a 289 block taken out to a 4.000″ bore. Pumps up the mid-range torque, and it still revs like a dental dril.
The Boss 302 was a 302 “Windsor” enigine with the improved cylinder heads from the 351 “Cleveland” engine. Worked great at high-RPM (just like a 302 Z28), but was a pooch on the street. The ports were just too big for a 5 liter engine, and it was very doggy from a standstill.
I think for a campaign platform to be limited-government it would have to lay off 90% of federal employees, reduce federal spending by 90%, and repeal 90% of federal laws/regulations/codes. The only people who want that are the 10% who voted for Ron Paul for president.
The increasing prosecution of middle-class dissidents is shrinking the time window during which liberation can occur. It’s going to go from, bankruptcy/hyperinflation announced late on a Friday, to liberty by Wednesday when the destruction of the dollar shifts power from paper claims to skills. What will you do once you are free? Will your grandkids colonize Mars?
There’s no more “new frontier, EL”. And the Deep State will kill us all to survive.
All good stuff. The bees win today, I think.
You all be safe and God bless.
I don’t “love” 427 Cobras. I respect them. They’re the most brutal car I’ve ever driven. Violent, explosive, twitchy, hair-trigger….all that and more. They’re not a lot of fun to drive, being so demanding, but in the right hands are capable of going very fast.
They’re not a Cadillac.
That garage scene in FvF where Miles is telling a disgruntled auto repair customer that his MG “is a sportscar, you’ve got to drive it like one or you’ll fowl the plugs and it won’t run right…but more importantly it’s not really the car for you, maybe a Plymouth or Studebaker is your style.”
Heh.
‘Foul’…altho the guy was a bit flighty.
It’s not wrong to love a snake.
It’s wrong to lust after one.
Ask me how I know.
I can afford one now. I’m too old though and as Ed mentioned above, I factor the days I could use it where I live and it doesn’t pencil out. If I spend more time in SoCal for work, maybe, but then again, sitting in the Range Rover in air conditioned splendor in bumper to bumper traffic with the Eagles crooning “Hotel California” or Hendley singing “Boys of Summer” is better than the snake in traffic. And it’s a place of constant traffic or the mountains where it rains every afternoon.
Concur on the Toyota Hilux… Even without the DShK. I can find one of those, or an acceptable substitute…
What I’d like to have is a NEW Hilux with a clean title (not a Mexican Hilux smuggled across the border). There are a number of personal modifications that I’d do to it to meet my needs. I did the same thing to my Toyota FJC. The basic Hilux diesel is good for at least 500K miles and they’ve been known to go 750K on the same engine.
And you can’t kill them…the (BBC) Top Gear boys tried six ways from Sunday and it still ran and drove.
What a beautiful Snake! Neat closing infographic too.